About this Artist
Alice Neel was born in Merion Square, Pennsylvannia as the fourth of five children to Alice Concross Hartley and George Washington Neel. After graduating high school, Neel worked for the Army as a secretary and pursued her passion for art on the side by attending classes at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia.
In 1921, Neel enrolled as a student at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art) and studied under Henry Snell and Rae Sloan Bredin. After graduating in 1925, Neel briefly moved to Cuba, but eventually settled in New York City. She became a member of the Works Progress Administration and between 1935 to 1943, worked in the Easel Division of the Federal Art Project. However, the following decade proved to be difficult for Neel to find a market for her work.
Despite the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, Neel continued to develop her portrait paintings of regular people. Her subjects ranged from family members to strangers she encountered on the street. In 1960, Neel painted the poet, art critic, and MoMa curator Frank O'Hara. After five sittings and the completion of two portraits, both paintings were well received by the public. Subsequently, the momentum of the women's rights movement also led to an increased appreciation for Neel's work.
By 1974, Neel received a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Later in 1979, Alice Neel was one of the first honorees to receive the Women's Caucus for Art award (alongside Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O'Keefe). Not long after in 1981, Neel traveled to Moscow for a major exhibition of her work.
The last two decades of Neel's life was filled with solo shows, lectures and panel discussions. This included her appearance on the Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson in 1984. That same year, she passed away at her New York apartment due to inoperable colon cancer. Today Alice Neel's works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among many others.
Sources taken from The Art Story and Artnet.
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Alice Neel
Born: 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania
Died: 1984 in New York
Education:
1921-25 Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art)
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes, David Zwirner, New York
2011 Alice Neel: Family, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2011 Alice Neel | Men Only, Victoria Miro, London
2010 Alice Neel: Painted Truths, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; traveled to Whitechapel Gallery, London; Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
2010 Alice Neel: Paintings, Louisiana Louver, Venice, California
2010 Alice Neel: Paintings and Drawings, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2009 Alice Neel: Selected Works, David Zwirner, New York, concurrent with Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
2009 Alice Neel: Works on Paper, Victoria Miro, London
2008 Alice Neel: Collector of Souls, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2008 Alice Neel, Drawing from Life, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Alice Neel: The Cycle of Life, Victoria Miro, London
2007 Alice Neel: Pictures of People, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2005 Alice Neel’s Women, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (10/28/05 – 1/15/06)
2004 Alice Neel: A Chronicle of New York, Victoria Miro, London, England (6/1 – 7/31/04)
2000 Alice Neel: A Retrospective, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (6/29 – 9/17/00), traveling to Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (10/7 – 12/31/00), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2/18 – 4/15/01), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (6/9 – 9/2/01), The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (10/6 – 12/20/01)
1998 Alice Neel: Men in Suits, Cheim & Read, New York, New York (3/4-4/25/98) Alice Neel: Men in Suits, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana (9/18 –10/12/98)
1996-98 Kinships: Alice Neel Looks at the Family, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington (3/12 - 6/9/96), (travels to: Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California (9/5 - 11/3/96); Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington (11/15 - 12/15/96); University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California (2/18 - 4/20/97); Boise, Idaho, Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (8/30 - 10/26/97); Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts (11/6/97 - 1/11/98); Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida (2/14, 1998-3/29/1998)
1997 Alice Neel: Paintings from the Thirties, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (3/11-4/12/97)
1996 The Pregnant Nudes of Alice Neel, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (1/9 - 2/3/96)
1996 Alice Neel: Family Portraits and Other Works, Northfield Mount Herman Scholl, Massachusetts (1/9-2/3/96)
1995 Alice Neel: The Complete Prints, The Gallery, Division of Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (11/13 - 12/17/95)
1994 Alice Neel: The Years in Spanish Harlem 1938-1961, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (2/15 - 3/19/94)
1993 Alice Neel, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont (4/18/93 - 4/28/93) (two paintings were shown at the St. Johnsbury Academy)
1992 Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1992 Alice Neel 'in Spanish Harlem' Paintings From 1948 to 1958 (1/4 - 2/11/92) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, special installation of 8 works, (7/92)
1991 Exterior/Interior: The Non-Figurative Work of Alice Neel, Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts (10/1 - 12/15/91)
1991 Alice Neel in Spanish Harlem, Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, New York (6/29 - 7/28/91)
1990 Alice Neel – Print Retrospective 1966-1973, Sragow Gallery, New York (4/17 - 5/31/90)
1989 Alice Neel and Diane Arbus: Children, curated by John Cheim, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (4/25 - 5/20/89)
1987-88 Alice Neel, Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California (9/18 - 10/31/87) (travelled to: Gallery Paule Anglim 2/10 - 3/12/88)
1987 Revealing the Spirit: Paintings by Alice Neel, Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (10/8 - 12/13/87)
1987 Alice Neel Paintings and Drawings, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, New York
1986 Alice Neel: Paintings and Drawings, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, New York
1986 Alice Neel Drawings and Watercolors, curated by John Cheim, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1985 Alice Neel Perspectives series, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (1/29 - 3/10/85)
1985 Alice Neel Paintings Since 1970, curated by John Cheim, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1/26-3/17/85)
1984 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1984 Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1983 Alice Neel, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California (2/29 - 5/7/83)
1983 Alice Neel Paintings, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (7/30 -6/4/83)
1983 Hope College de Pree Art Center and Gallery
1983 Alice Neel, Works from the 20's, 30's, 40's and more, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (7/17 - 8/28/83)
1983 Phoenix Gallery, New York
1983 Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
1982 Alice Neel Non-Figurative Works: Still Lifes; Cityscapes, Landscapes, Interiors, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (5/4 - 6/5/82)
1981-82 National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
1981 Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1981 Artist Union, Moscow, Russia
1981 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1980 Graham Gallery, New York
1980 Lancaster Community College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1980 Sarah Institute, New York
1980 Alice Neel: Paintings of Two Decades, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (10/9 - 11/2/80)
1980 Drury College, Springfield, Massachusetts
1979 Middendorf Lane Gallery, Washington, DC
1979 Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
1979 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1979 Alice Neel: A Retrospective Showing, Guild of Artists, Silvermine, New Canaan, Connecticut (2/25 -4/11/79) in combination with the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut (3/18 - 4/8/79)
1978 Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1978 Alice Neel, Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2/8 - 2/26/78)
1978 Alice Neel: A Retrospective of Watercolors and Drawings, Graham Gallery, New York (11/1- 11/25/78)
1978 Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1978 Alice Neel Paintings, Art Gallery, New Art Center, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (11/16 - 12/12/78)
1978 State University of New York, Plattsburg, New York
1978 Alice Neel Paintings, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (3/15 - 4/16/78)
1977 Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland
1977 Graham Gallery, New York
1977 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1977 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1977 Queens College Library, Queens, New York
1976 Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut
1976 Graham Gallery, New York
1975 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
1975 Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
1975 Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work, Georgia, Athens, Georgia (9/7 - 10/19/75)
1975 Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
1975 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
1975 American Can Collective, San Francisco, California
1975 University Center Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
1974 Alice Neel (Retrospective), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2/7 - 3/17/74)
1974 Old Mill Gallery, Tinton Falls, New Jersey
1974 Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey
1974 Graham Gallery, New York
1973 Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
1972 Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio
1972 Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
1971 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1970 Graham Gallery, New York
1969 Nightingale Galleries, Toronto, Canada
1968 Graham Gallery, New York
1967 Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco, California
1966 Graham Gallery, New York
1965 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1965 Fordham University, Bronx, New York
1963 Graham Gallery, New York
1962 Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1960 Old Mill Gallery, Tinton Falls, New Jersey
1954 ACA Gallery, New York, New York
1951 New Playwrights Theater, New York
1950 ACA Gallery, New York
1944 Pinacotheca Gallery, New York
1938 Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York
1926 Havana, Cuba
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Benny Andrews, Alice Neel, Bob Thompson, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
2011 Art Since the Mid-20th Century, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
2011 Birds and Flowers, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
2011 Body Gesture: A group exhibition of Feminist Art, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2011 Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections, Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2011 Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Traveled to; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
2010 Extreme Makeover, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California
2010 Facing the Figure: Selected Works from the Collection, 1962-2007, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2010 The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2010 In the Company of Alice, Victoria Miro, London
2010 Limners to Facebook: Portraiture from the 19th to the 21st Century, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
2010 Recent Acquisitions, St. Louis University Museum of Art, Missouri
2010 Self-Consciousness, Veneklasen Werner, Berlin. Curated by Hilton Als and Peter Doig
2009 Benches & Binoculars, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2009 The Expanding Eye: Art Inspired by Edgar Ellen Poe, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
2009 The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York
2009 The Figure and Dr. Freud, Haunch of Venison, New York
2009 Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, El Museo del Barrio, New York
2009 Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee. Traveled to; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
2008 Ambivalent Figuration: People, Samson Projects, Boston
2008 Edvard Munch: Tribute and Inspiration, Faurschou, Copenhagen
2007 I Am As You Will Be, Cheim & Read, New York
2007 The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Traveled to; Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England
2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; Vancouver Art Gallery
2006 The New Landscape/The New Still life: Soutine and Modern Art, Cheim & Read, New York (6/22 – 9/9/06)
2001 The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art, curated by Dr. Daniel Siedell, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia (5/11 – 7/9/2001)
2000 The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska. Traveled to; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida
1999 The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1999 In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1998 Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York (6/18-8/7/98)
1997-98 Faces & Figures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York (9/21/97-1/4/98)
1997 Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York (3/1-5/25/97)
1997 Bourgeois, Holzer & Neel, Cheim & Read, New York (2/14-4/5/97)
1996 Are you Blue?, Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York (1/9 - 2/24/96)
1996 50/50: Fifty Artists from Fifty Years of Skowhegan, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York (4/9 - 4/26/96) (also at Robert Miller Gallery, New York on 4/30/96)
1996 Summer Group Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (7/1-8/30/96)
1996 Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California (10/5 -12/29/96)
1996 Portraits, James Graham & Sons, New York, New York (11/7-12/21/96)
1996 Partners in Printmaking: Works from SOLO Impression, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (10/10/96-1/12/97)
1995-96 Face Value: American Portraits, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York (7/15 - 9/2/95); traveled to The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2/3 - 4/21/96); The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida (7/14 - 9/8/96)
1995-96 Voices of Conscience: Then and Now, ACA Galleries, New York (12/13/95 - 1/27/96)
1995 Face Value: American Portraits, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York (7/16 - 9/3/95)
1995 Embody, Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York (6/1 - 8/18/95)
1995 Poet Rebels of the 1950s, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC (1/26/96 - 6/2/96)
1994-95 Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (9/9 - 10/30/94); (traveling to: Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, Nebraska (1/28 - 3/19/95); Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina (4/9 - 5/28/95)
1994 Aspects of Face and Form, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, (1/14 - 2/27/94)
1994 Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art, (curated by Sam Hunter and organized by The Hakone Open-Air Museum), The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan (6/17 - 6/25/94); (travels to The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa-ken, Japan (7/18 - 8/14/94)
1994 Realism & Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (5/27 - 8/18/94)
1993 They Earn(ed) Their Keep, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut (4/11 - 5/30/93)
1993 Artists by Artists, Forum Gallery, New York (2/4 - 3/14/93)
1993 I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York (1/9/93 - 2/20/93)
1993 Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art by Women, David Zwirner, New York (5/1 - 6/12/93)
1993 Third Williams Alumni Loan Exhibition: 200 Years of American Art, Williams Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts (6/12 - 11/29/93)
1993 Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (6/8 - 6/13/93), under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale. Reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (10/6 -10/19/93)
1993 Abstract-Figurative, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (6/93 - 8/93)
1993 Abstract-Figurative, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York (9/11 - 10/9/93)
1992 Arte Americana 1930-1970, Lingotto, Torino, Italy (1/7/92 - 3/31/92); organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York
1992 The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: Adam and Eve, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (10/10 - 12/6/92)
1992 The National Association of Women Artists: One Hundred Years, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point (3/23 - 4/26/92)
1992 Images of Children, The Peck School, Morristown, New Jersey
1992 Paint, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York (4/4 -5/9/92)
1992 Faces, The Roger Smith Hotel, New York (9/10 -
1992 Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (9/9 - 11/29/92)
1991-92 American Realism & Figurative Art: 1952-1990 (organized by John Arthur), The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan (traveled to: Sogo Museum of Art (1/29 - 2/16/92); The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (2/22 - 3/29/92); The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga (4/4 - 5/17/92); Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art (5/23 -6/21/92)
1991-92 Figures and Faces, Klarfeld-Perry Gallery, New York (12/4/91 - 1/2/92)
1991 The Nude Drawings of the Figure by New York School Artists circa 1930-1950, Twining Gallery, New York (3/9 - 4/20/91)
1991 Image & Likeness - Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza (1/23 - 3/20/91), (traveled to: Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Connecticut (3/29 - 6/5/91)
1991 Head-On/ The Modern Portrait - Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (traveled to: Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California (6/25 - 9/7/91)
1991 Early Later, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut (6/14 - 8/24/91)
1991 Philadelphia Juvenile: The Art of Future Past, The Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (9/6 -10/13/91)
1991 Urban Icons, Klarfield-Perry, New York (9/12 - 10/12/91)
1990-92 National Association of Women Artists: 100 Years, The Albany Institute of History of Art, Albany, New York (9/15/90 - 11/4/90) (traveled to: Fred Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (11/17/90 - 12/16/90); Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY at Oswego, New York (2/24 - 3/20/91); Art Museum, The Museums at Stony Brook, New York (4/7 - 6/23/91); Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York (7/2 - 8/18/91); Arnot Art Museum, Elmire, New York, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (12/91 - 1/92); Edna Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, (3/22 - 4/26/92); Southern Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio (9/1 - 9/30/92)
1990-91 Family Romance, Perry Rubinstein, New York (12/1/90 - 1/31/90)
1990 Group Show, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York (3/3 - 3/31/90)
1990 Harmony & Discord: American Landscape Today, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (8/6 - 9/20/90)
1990 Early/Later: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, (at Equitable Center), New York
1990 Some Seventies Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (6/12 - 7/31/90)
1990 Figuring the Body, Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (7/28 - 10/28/90)
1990 Black and White: Works on Paper, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990 Art What Thou Eat, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York (9/2 - 11/18/90)
1990 Figuring the Body, Henry and Lois Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (7/28 - 10/28/90)
1990 Annie Sprinkle in Post Post Porn Modernist, RAW (Real Art Ways), Hartford, Connecticut (12/3 -12/5 and 12/10 - 12/12/93)
1989-90 Making Their Mark, Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park, Ohio (2/22 - 4/2/89) (traveled to: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (5/6 - 6/18/89); Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (7/15 - 9/10/89); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (9/10/89 - 1/3/90)
1989-90 Food/Art/USA, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York (9/4 - 11/89) (traveled to: New York Historical Society, New York, (12/18/90 - 3/22/91)
1989 300 Years of Still Life, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1989 Art in Bloom: The Flower as Subject, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida (2/2 - 3/2/89)
1989 From the Model, Selections from The Permanent Collection of the Whitney, Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, New York
1989 A Decade of American Drawings: 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California (7/15 - 8/12/89)
1989 Made in America, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia (4/5 - 6/11/89)
1989 Contemporary Prints and Photographs from the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, University Galleries, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida (8/27 - 9/24/89)
1989 Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (7/7 - 10/15/89)
1989 Face Off, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York (10/28 -12/2/89) American Figuration: The 1950s and 1960s, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California (11/28 - 12/30/89)
1988-89 Portraits-Here's Looking At You, Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Alaska (6/19/88 - 6/1/89)
1988-89 Portrait of the American Law, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (10/13/88 - 1/15/89)
1988 The Face, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1988 Women Artists of the New Deal Era, A Selection of Prints and Drawings, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1988 Just Like A Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina (3/15 - 5/15/88)
1988 One Hundred Years: A Centennial Celebration of the National Association of Women Artists, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York (10/16 - 12/31/88)
1988 People, Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (2/19 - 3/19/88)
1987-89 Frivolity and Morality: The Tradition of Vanitas in Contemporary Painting, Sherry French Gallery, New York (12/2 - 12/26/88) (traveled to: Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey, Knoxville Museum of Art; Val Pariso University, Val Pariso, Indiana; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; University of Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California; Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY at Oswego, New York)
1987-88 The Artist's Mother: Portraits and Homage, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York (11/14/87 - 1/3/88) (traveled to National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 3/26 - 6/5/88)
1987-88 The Expressionist Landscape, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama (9/11 - 11/4/87) (traveled to: IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, (11/24/87 - 1/30/88); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York (2/14 - 3/27/88); Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (4/9 - 6/5/88); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, (6/30 - 8/21/88)
1987 Contemporary Works on Paper, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York
1987 American Art Today: The Portrait, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida (5/8 - 6/3/87)
1987 Still Life, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1987 Still Life, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
1987 Lust, One of the Seven Deadlies, M-13 Gallery, New York
1987 Pastel Anthology II, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
1987 After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity, Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 Art on Paper 1987, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina (11/15 - 12/13/87)
1986-87 Boston Collects - Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1986 The Male Nude: Women Regard Men, Hudson Center Galleries, New York (2/6 - 3/1/86)
1986 Contemporary American Still Life, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey Portraits, New York Studio of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York
1986 Summer Group Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1986 Objects Observed, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey (11/16 - 12/30/86)
1985-86 The Surreal City, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York (traveled to: Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, (7/18 - 10/13/85); The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (1/4 - 2/10/86); High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (2/24 - 4/25/86)
1985-86 American Art: American Woman, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut (12/15/85 - 2/23/86)
1985-86 Nude, Naked, Stripped, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (12/13/85 - 2/2/86)
1985 Not Just Black and White, City Gallery, New York
1985 Six Women Artists, New Woman Magazine, New York
1985 10 Years Later, Wallace Wentworth Gallery, Washington, DC
1985 Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, The Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho
1985 Interior/Exterior, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985 The Gathering of the Avant Garde: The Lower East Side, 1950-1970's, Kenkeleba House, New York
1985 American Women Artists, Peck School, Morristown, New Jersey
1985 Innocence and Experience, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina (10/8 - 11/24/85) (traveled to: First Street Gallery, New York)
1985 Visiting Artists, Kansas City Art Institute, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri (11/2 - 11/24/85)
1985 Memorial Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York (11/18 - 12/15/85)
1985 Survival of the Fittest II, Ingber Gallery, New York
1985 Views: Interior & Exterior, Koplin Gallery (4/27 - 5/25/85)
1984 Flower as Image in Contemporary Art, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York (2/84 - 5/84)
1984 New Realism: Behind the Scenes, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas (2/3 - 3/1/84)
1984 American Women Artists (Part I: 20th Century Pioneers), Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (1/12 - 2/4/84)
1984 Drawings, Tracey Garet Gallery, New York
1984 From the Beginning, Pratt Graphic Center, New York
1984 Women, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois (catalogue) (2/21 - 4/22/84)
1984 The Richard and Jane Lang Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Oregon (2/2 - 4/1/84)
1984 The New Portrait, P.S.1, New York
1984 American Art Since 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (traveled to La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida)
1984 Humanism: An Undercurrent, University of South Florida Galleries, Tampa, Florida
1984 An Other Vision: Selected Works by Women Artists in the Weatherspoon Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina (catalogue) (3/13 - 4/1/84)
1984 Beauties & Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York (7/2 - 7/28/84)
1984 The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (catalogue) (6/28 - 9/26/84)
1984 Summer Group Show, Artist's Choice Museum, New York (11/2 - 12/30/84)
1984 Celebration of the 80's, Palace Theater Art Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland
1984 Drawings by Contemporary American Figurative Artists, Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (9/28 - 11/4/84)
1984 Contemporary Artists in Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont (9/25 - 12/31/84)
1984 The Figure in 20th Century American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Federation of Arts, New York, organized (traveled to: Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; National Academy of Design, New York, New York; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota)
1984 Artist's Choice Museum: The First Eight Years, Artist's Choice Museum, New York (11/17 - 12/30/84)
1983-92 The Other American: Art and the Labour Movement in the United States, Neue Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany, traveled throughout Europe until 5/92
1983 The Art of Still Life, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1983 Drawing Conclusions: A Survey of American Drawings: 1958 – 1983, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1983 Artists in the Historical Archives of the Women's Interart Center of New York City, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1983 The Painterly Figure: Veteran Expressionist Figure Painters, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York (3/2 - 3/26/83)
1983 Walls of the 70's A Pluralist Exhibit, The QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough, New York (4/10 - 4/30/83)
1983 Five Artists and the Figure, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut
1983 Eight Women/Still Life, New Britain Museum, New Britain, Connecticut
1983 Art on Paper 1983, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
1983 Self Portraits, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington (traveled to Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California)
1983 Portrait Sculpture: Contemporary Points of View, Bethune Gallery, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York (11/11 - 12/7/83)
1983 The Painterly Figure, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York (7/24 - 9/4/83)
1983 Drawings, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1983 American Realism 1930's/1980's A Comparative Perspective, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey
1983 American Still Life, 1945-83, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (traveled to Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon)
1983 Realistic Directions, Zollar Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
1983 New Portraits: Behind Faces, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio (10/19 - 2/6/83)
1983 Art and Culture of the American Labor Movement, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin (3/13 - 4/24/83)
1982 The Human Figure, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1982 Five Artists and the Figure, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut (4/9 - 6/9/82)
1982 Woman: Subject and Object, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
1982 Visiting Artist Invitational, Montclair State College, College Art Gallery, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
1982 Reflections on Realism, Carson Sapiro Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1982 Portraits of Artists, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (11/14 - 12/3/82)
1982 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York
1982 Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
1982 Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California
1982 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1982 Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1982 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1982 Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
1982 Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut
1982 Contemporary Art Center, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
1982 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1982 Lever House, New York
1982 The Erotic Impulse, Roger Litz Gallery, New York
1982 Still Life/Interiors, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1982 New Portraits: Behind Faces, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
1982 Aspects of Contemporary Realism, The William Patterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey
1982 Contemporary Self-Portraits, Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1982 Figures, Kornblee Gallery, New York (5/21 - 6/15/82)
1981-82 Inside Out: Self Beyond Likeness, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California (5/22 - 7/12/81) (to Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (9/8 - 10/18/81) and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (2/13 - 4/4/82)
1981 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (traveled to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Sala de Exposiciones, Recoletos, Madrid, Spain; Germanisch National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany)
1981 Still Life Paintings and Drawings, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
1981 Still Life and Beyond, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, Connecticut
1981 Real, Really Real and Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (traveled to Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
1981 Forum Gallery, New York
1981 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1980 The Figurative Tradition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1980 Renderings of the Modern Woman, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Harold Reed Gallery, New York
1980 Aspects of the 70's: Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
1980 Originals, Graham Gallery, New York (1/15 - 2/20/80) (exhibition based on the book, American Woman Artists, published by Simon & Schuster, 1979)
1979 Six Painters of the Figure, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Colorado
1979 Woman, Harold Reed Gallery, New York (11/20 - 12/15/79)
1978 WPA Show, Grey Art Gallery, New York
1978 WPA Show, Parsons School of Design, New York
1978 Squib Exhibition, Princeton, New Jersey
1978 Sister Chapel, PS #1, New York
1978 State University of New York, Stony Brook, LI
1977 Nothing but Nudes, Downtown Whitney, New York
1977 Recent Acquisitions, 1945-1975, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Artists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Galleries, New York (12/8 - 12/21/77)
1977 William Seitz Memorial, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1976 Everson Museum, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1976 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1976 Portraits 1776-1976, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
1976 Portraits of the Self and Others, Wildenstein Gallery, New York
1976 Bicentennial Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1976 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1975 Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia
1975 National Academy of Design, New York
1975 The Queen's Museum, Flushing, New York
1975 Woman Chose Woman and Three Centuries of the American Nude, The New York Cultural Center, New York
1975 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, Minnesota
1975 Candid Painting, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts (10/12 - 12/17/95)
1975 University of Houston Fine Art Center, Houston, Texas
1975 International Biennale, Tokyo, Japan (three paintings)
1974 Women's Interart Center, New York
1974 Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1974 Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
1974 Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1974 The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
1973 The New York Cultural Center, New York
1973 Women's Interart Center, New York
1973 School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York
1973 Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
1973 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1972 Whitney Museum of American Art, Painting Annual, New York
1972 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
1972 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1971 National Academy of Design, New York
1971 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1969 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1969 Mom, Apple Pie and the American Flag, Graham Gallery, New York
1969 Studio Museum of Harlem, New York
1969 Museum of Modern Art, New York, (traveling exhibition)
1969 National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1968 Museum of Modern Art, New York, (traveling exhibition)
1965 Hassam Foundation
1964-65 The Emotional Temperatures of Art - Traveling Exhibition, The American Federation of the Arts, New York
1964 The Contemporary Portraits, Byron Gallery, New York
1964 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
1964 The Riverside Museum, New York
1964 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1964 Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut
1962 Figures, Kornblee Gallery, New York
1962 Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1960 ACA Gallery, New York
1942 WPA Exhibition, Macy's Department Store, New York
1938 The New Group, ACA Gallery, New York
1933 Boyer Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Awards
1969 Received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
1971 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art (formerly Philadelphia School of Design for Women), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1976 Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1979 Received National Women's Caucus for Art Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art, presented by President Jimmy Carter
Public Collections
Apostolic Delegation, Embassy Row, Washington, DC
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Dillard Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Jewish Museum, New York
Ludkin Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, California
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Montclair Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Princeton University Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Source taken from Cheim & Read.
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